Keeping Focus

Friday, June 8. Continue to reflect on your experiences of discerning God’s will as you read “Our Life Task” (p. 8). What form has cultural seduction taken as you sought to be faithful? What element was the hardest to turn your back on?

Spiritual Tools: Sometimes, God calls out to us by affirming the activities in which we already find peace and joy. Explore Gardening as a way of discerning call, or imagine how God calls you through your other hobbies.

Quote:

Our times cry out for a mass movement of compassion. This urgent need coincides with the goal of the Christ-following life, for unless our faith makes us compassionate, it can hardly be called Christian. Following Jesus means moving out of our privatized, isolated, and self-enclosed worlds into a compassionate engagement with our suffering neighbor. As we open ourselves to the pilgrimage experience, … we journey from self-centeredness to compassion. May you and I become everyday pilgrims whom God can use to bring healing to our broken world.

I can’t do this. As soon as I think “this is the way God calls me back” another way pops into mind. I guess it’s like asking me to describe God. I can’t do that either. I’m thinking it’s best for me this way. If I could describe God or any of God’s attributes, I would be God. Alas, I’m not God. I think it best for God to be God.

I can’t do this. As soon as I think “this is the way God calls me back” another way pops into mind. I guess it’s like asking me to describe God. I can’t do that either. I’m thinking it’s best for me this way. If I could describe God or any of God’s attributes, I would be God. Alas, I’m not God. I think it best for God to be God.

I am having a flare of my arthritis. Yesterday, I wanted to stay in bed. A police officer called me to help with a domestic abuse case. I saw God’s love demonstrated by the officer and the Children’s services rep in an astounding way. A real solution to help this woman. The Spirit keeps reminding me this is how it should always be. It blew away my pain.

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